“Why do I travel? It’s not the flying I mind- I will always be awed by the physics that get a fat metal bird into the upper troposphere. The rest of the journey, however, can feel like a tedious lesson in the ills of modernity, from the predawn x-ray screening to the sad [...]

Internazionale teaches me things I didn’t know I needed to know. Like how well Izis’ images complement Irene Nemirovsky’s words, for example.

Il Carnevale di Nizza (1956)

Le rive della Senna, Petit Pont (1949)

Jardin de Tuileries (1950)

“…would connect turbines off the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany’s vast arrays of solar panels, and join the power of waves crashing on to the Belgian and Danish coasts with the hydro-electric dams nestled in Norway’s fjords: Europe’s first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as [...]

This right here is an open letter about Open Letter.
While budgets for higher education are shrinking and reading rates worldwide are plummeting, Americans now consume over 11 hours of information on a daily basis (a recent University of California study found that Americans consume three zettabytes of information a year, equivalent to three sextillion gigabytes [...]

Oh I simply had to drop everything I was doing- the simultaneous emails, the chats, the cyber-pings, the planning- to contemplate the absolutely incredible nature of Andrew Bird’s musicianship. There’s something about his ability to craft a song that always causes me to stop, sigh, and get lost in my own thoughts no matter where, [...]